Michael Rosen is an English children's author, poet, broadcaster and academic, and a professor of children's literature at Goldsmiths, University of London. Among his books are We're Going on a Bear Hunt (1989) and Sad Book (2004), and he has written more than 200 books for children and adults. Ready for Spaghetti is a set of poems that moves through one day, from waking to bedtime, playing with sense and nonsense in language. Rosen served as Children's Laureate from 2007 to 2009 and won the 2023 PEN Pinter Prize.
